間 Ma

Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura

Awake! awake! I’ll make of thee My comrade, sleeping butterfly.

Matsuo Bashō

okiyo okiyo · waga tomo ni sen · nuru kochō

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 320; lines re-broken

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